This sounds hard enough to begin with, but they made some interesting discoveries along the way, finding the project more difficult than they thought in the process.

For example, they found that locally caught crabs where sent to China for processing! Since the food had travelled more than 100 miles between source and plate, they couldn’t eat it.

Deciding to catch their own salmon in a local river, they discovered that the whole river had been destroyed by a train derailment that released caustic soda into the water. This put the magnitude of what some might consider a minor disaster into perspective.

Their experiment forced them to eat very healthy food. It was also a showcase for making the environment more healthy. I am sure that eating this way would reduce the incidnets of allergies, both because of the healthy food, and because it reduces the pollutants released into the atmosphere.